Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with Wolfblood.

A/N: So, the way this is going to work is this:

Each chapter will stand as an episode or a part of an episode. For example, "Episode One" has two parts split in to two chapters; but another episode may just take up one chapter. At the start of each chapter I will state whether there's a 'part two' to the episode or whether the chapter stands as the whole episode. Hope that makes sense!?

Episode One, Part 1 – "Reunion"

Rhydian was almost at his last straw.

He'd been climbing the mountains around here for almost ten days now; he was cold, tired, weak, and pretty lonely. Sleeping rough and having to hunt for all his food was most definitely not his idea of a good time away in Canada, but the whole time it had been worth it to find Maddy.

He promised her he'd find her. And he was not going to let her down.

On his tenth day of climbing and hiking, he found his way up another mountain that looked just the same as all the others he'd been working his way through – for all he knew, he could be just going in circles – and he stopped in front of a pile of rocks.

He decided to just go for it and let out a howl—partly out of frustration and desperation, but mostly just hoping that someone would hear him. Preferably Maddy.

Rhydian was just about to turn around and give up when he heard it.

He heard her.

"Maddy," he breathed, his smile bigger than he ever thought possible.
He found her.

After all those months of missing her; just wanting to see her face and hear her voice again. After this horrible journey he'd been on to get to her…he found her. He was going to get to see her again.

Maddy.

Maddy didn't really remember what she was thinking or feeling before she smelled it.

It was a scent she hadn't smelled in far too long; a scent that belonged to someone she had been longing for for over six months now.

She'd been up on the mountain, running around and letting off some steam with her parents in the bright mountain sunshine and crisp white snow; grinning and laughing, feeling her clothes whip around her in the wind.

Things had been going just fine, if not a little lacking of a bigger pack.

But then she smelled it. It was so familiar, so comforting, and for a moment she was scared that it might be too good to be true. Maybe her imagination was playing tricks on her.

In the past few months, it had been doing that a lot. She kept thinking she smelled him or saw him when using Eolas, but usually it was when she was half asleep and her mind was running wild on her. The images or scents would wash away almost immediately which is what told her that it was all fake; just a product of her tired imagination.

She missed him so much.

But this time, the scent lasted, and her eyes were searching the area carefully from under her dark eyelashes. She froze in her spot and inhaled a deep breath.

"Maddy? What is it?" Emma asked curiously, stopping what she was doing. She could sense that something was going on, but somehow she knew it was nothing bad. It was the opposite…she knew it was something good.

"Can you smell that?" Maddy wasn't looking at either one of her parents.

"Um…no, I…I don't think so…"

But her mum's sentence was cut short when Maddy heard it. She heard him; heard his howl coming from the distance.
And this time, she knew it wasn't fake, or in her imagination, or just any other wolf or Wolfblood out having a good time.

It was Rhydian.

Rhydian.

Instinctively, Maddy howled back, and soon she spotted him. Right in the distance, barely even a dot to the human eye, but she was sure it was him. She knew it was him. It was his undeniable scent and his striking blonde hair that caught her eyes.

"Rhydian," she breathed before feeling the wolf take over. Straight away she transformed in to her canine self and she could vaguely hear her mum saying something to her in the background, but it was all a blur as she ran towards him.

He began bounding towards her and before they knew it their paws were skidding along the snow as they nearly crashed in to each other.

Rhydian was panting heavily and so was Maddy, but none of that mattered because they were together again. Finally.

The wolf's natural instinct was to sniff and nuzzle each other's fur as much as they could, spreading their scent on to each other after far too long of being apart. They looked at each other longingly, their faces softening at the sight of each other.

After a while, when they were satisfied with spreading scents back on to each other, Maddy decided she wanted to be in her human form again; she wanted to hug him, touch him, talk to him.

So she crouched to the ground, and when she rose again, she was human.

Watching as he transformed back too, she grinned. And then she leapt on to him, the grin on her face bigger than she ever thought possible, her legs wrapped around his waist.

She buried her head in to his neck and he held her up, his arms around her body tightly.

"Rhydian!" She giggled to herself, not quite believing that he was here with her; that she was touching him right now.

"Maddy," he laughed softly in to her ear.

Maddy pulled her face away from his shoulder and started kissing all over his face: his eyelids, his cheeks, his chin, his forehead. She just wanted to remember what it felt like to touch him.

"You found me," she breathed when she finally let her lips come away from his skin.

Rhydian put her down gently but didn't realise the grip of his arms around her, and he rested his forehead on hers.

"Did you ever doubt I would?"

Grinning, Maddy shook her head and felt the tears begin to sting at the back of her eyes. She couldn't believe this was happening. She couldn't believe that she'd found him – how long must it have taken him to find her, all the way out here in the middle of nowhere? – In Canada!?

Neither of them was at all able to hide their glee of seeing each other again.

"I sort of left my parents back there with no idea what's going on," Maddy said after a few minutes of silence. She pulled her head away from his and looked in to his eyes.

"We should maybe go tell them that I'm here."

Instead of nodding and walking back up the hill like Rhydian had expected, she just grinned even wider and said, "you're here." And then she leaned in and kissed him, so gently, so softly.
It took Rhydian by surprise at first but he soon kissed back and felt her smile as he did so.

"I've missed you." Maddy whispered.

"I've missed you too. So…so much."

Turns out Maddy's parents had gone back to their place. Segolia had provided them with a small cabin on the edges of the mountains and the wilderness – much smaller than their house back in Stoneybridge – nearly in the middle of no where. It was on the very outskirts of the small Canadian town, a few miles away from anywhere else; barely even a part of civilisation.

"So you've been trekking through the mountains for 10 days?" Maddy asked as they walked in the direction of the house, down a steep slope consisting of snow and rocks that stuck out at all angles. There were trees surrounding them and as they descended the hill the temperature got higher and the snow began to fade slightly.

"Yeah," Rhydian shrugged nonchalantly, holding Maddy's hand to help as she jumped from a small rock and down in to the dirt.

"Wow."

"It's no big deal. You guys are the ones who live practically in the mountains now."

"We wouldn't if we had the choice," Maddy mumbled under her breath.

"What was that?"

"Nothing, nothing. So, tell me news. What's been going on back home?"

"So much stuff, you wouldn't believe. Jana came back a few months after you guys left; she'd been shot…"

Rhydian explained the whole Jana story before they finally reached what was, apparently, the Smith's new home.

It was almost completely invisible if you had no idea it was there. It was a small, brick house that resembled their home back in Stoneybridge. The roof was thick with snow and so were the window ledges.

Maddy opened the wooden front door and walked in before Rhydian, lending him a hand as he followed.

Inside, it was slightly bigger than the outside would have you believe. Maddy showed him around the place.

The door went straight in to the cosy-looking living room where there were low ceilings and two small sofas around a log burner that was obviously rarely used; probably only when absolutely necessary. To the left of the living room, just past a small section of wall was a kitchen with a small dining table in it. The living room and kitchen were pretty much attached, similar to the way their home back in Stoneybridge had had a collection of sofas next to the kitchen.

Upstairs, there was one bathroom between the three of them straight ahead of the staircase and two bedrooms on the right hand side of the corridor. Maddy's room had a small double bed in – surprisingly more than what she had back home – and a wooden wardrobe.

Mr and Mrs Smith were in their room reading when Maddy and Rhydian knocked on the door and walked in. Her parents' bedroom was pretty much the same as hers, if not a little bigger.

"Rhydian?" Emma questioned incredulously. And then she stood up, a smile spreading across her face. "Rhydian!" She looked almost like she couldn't believe he was actually here as she hugged him.

"Hi, Mrs Smith."

"Rhydian, it's so great to see you," Dan smiled, standing up to hug him too. "How on earth did you find us?"

"I can't believe you came all the way out here to find us," Maddy whispered, moving closer to Rhydian on the sofa they were sitting on. The couch was right up against the window and covered in blankets strewn all over the fabric. The light in the room was dim but ample.

They were sitting in the living room on their own, Emma and Dan having retired to bed for the night.

"I told you I'd find you." Rhydian answered softly, looking down at her. She was looking up at him, her arm wrapped around his, and her face was glowing in the small light of the lamp sitting on the coffee table in front of them. He took the opportunity to look at her face properly for the first time in months; her hair was a lot longer and messier now – down to just above her waist – and her face was almost the same, if not a little more matured.

"You're amazing, you know that?"

Rhydian's response was a grin. He leaned forward to kiss her forehead and then looked up and out of the window at the small section of sky they could see from here. Because they were right on the edge of any civilisation whatsoever, there was no city glow at all out here – they were practically in the mountains – and the stars looked amazing. Rhydian thought stars only looked like this in pictures.

"Beautiful, aren't they?" She looked out too.

"I didn't even know there were that many stars visible to the naked eye."

"It helps that we have wolf sight." Maddy smiled.

Rhydian smiled too. "Full moons must be incredible out here."

"It's a far cry from that dingy old den back home, that's for sure," Maddy agreed. They were still looking up at the sky. "Out here it's…free. Although we're sort of part of the town, we never go there, so we're practically on our own land out here. We're fully a part of nature. It's…amazing."

The couple fell in to a comfortable silence for a while. Rhydian was just appreciating hearing her breathe and feeling her next to him; he couldn't stop touching her in some way. All day he'd just felt an absolute, desperate need to hold her hand, touch her face, stand or sit right next to her. He thought that maybe it was just to remind him that she was actually real.

Maddy felt the same. She couldn't seem to let him move just few feet away from her. He was here with her, and she wanted to make the most of it after spending so long away from him.

"I miss it though," Maddy suddenly said, her voice quiet and slightly tentative.

"Miss what?" Rhydian had almost forgotten what they were talking about five minutes ago. His brain was fried.

For a moment, Maddy remained silent. But then she drew a deep breath in and, when she spoke again, her voice was very slightly shaky. "Home. I miss home."

"It's safe to come home now," he reminded her. "Whitewood's on our side. So…you can if you want."

"I'm scared," she whispered, tightening her grip on his arm. "All three of us are scared."

"What are you scared of?"

"What if it all happens again? What if…what if someone finds out; someone that shouldn't find out – like Liam, or something, I don't know – and threatens to expose us again? We can't just leave every time someone gets suspicious…"

Rhydian bit his lip nervously, deciding that now probably wasn't the best time to tell her about the fact that Mr. Jeffries and Liam now knew their secret. "I wish I knew the answers to all these 'what if's.… You're right, it is risky, and it is scary. But it's still home, you know? It's still where we belong…"

"I know. But it's just simpler out here, away from humans. I'm starting to think your mum might be right about humans…maybe,"

"She's not. Humans can be great."

"But also dangerous."

"We are part human, remember. And humans did invent flushing toilets, mind you. That's something we can thank them for."

Maddy laughed – a real, genuine laugh – and leaned her head on his shoulder. "True. That's true."

And then the conversation ended somehow. It seemed to come to a natural end.

Maddy had had some good points about going home. And to be honest, if push came to shove, Rhydian would be willing to do whatever Maddy and her family wanted. The plan had been to stay out here for a while anyway. As much as he missed Stoneybridge, his friends, his family, his pack; he could do without them. But what he couldn't do without anymore was Maddy.

So, yeah, he'd be willing to stay with them here if that's what they had their hearts set on doing. If that's what would keep them safer, like Maddy said.

But he had a feeling that this conversation wasn't quite finished yet.

A/N: So...here's the official first chapter of my S3 Continuation/my take on Season 4! If you read my Maddian one-shot you may well have been expecting this continuation soon! I really hope you guys got my little explanation of how this is going to work. If not, PM me and I will try to explain more :)

I realise that the title of this story is the same as a title of an episode in S2, but it has nothing to do with that:')

Soooo...what did you think!? Do let me know if you liked it, what you hope will happen and if you'd like to read more; I'll only continue this if people are interested:')

Hope you enjoyed this first chapter. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts! :)

Love :* xxx

[Just a note that this story will be centric around Maddian, but it will also have a running plot line not all about them eventually!]